This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.

Independence. They choose independence and have been fighting for independence and sovereignty for a very long time. We colonized Greenland and brutalized the indigenous inhabitants, we were doing forced sterilisation to their bodies until the fucking 1990s.

I thought this was about newsom until I got to the quoted post, either way the same applies... these opportunistic shitheels are not going to save anyone but themselves, and they're definitely not on our side

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

Dems for a while now are these weird placeholder puppets that, when in charge, keep whatever version of society Republicans have fucked us into as the new status quo, and just keep us in that holding pattern until the Republicans get back in power and fuck everything up more, and the cycle continues

Pete and Amy are really out here arguing that ICE isn’t killing people by the employee handbook when we are out here arguing ICE should not exist. They do NOT represent the will of the people.

isn't this just what they have been doing with Black people for years though? it just seems like the expansion to doing it to everyone who opposes them that they have been telling us about

Normally I hate phone calls, but I had a great chat with my brother today and I feel better every time we get to chew the fat awhile. It is, in fact, calming and grounding to just talk to the folks you care about. To walk and fidget and have a meandering conversation.

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

this is how I'm greeting new bluesky users

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

The real reason to tax billionaires isn’t to let the government spend their money, it’s to prevent them from buying government and directing how they spend our money

I'm not sure what the solution is to the "children spaces online" problem, but it isn't letting the Nazi Pedophiles build and operate the online daycares.

Translators deserve respect. They deserve to be listed alongside authors when a work is published/acknowledged/nominated. They deserve not to be enslopified just like artists, musicians, and writers as they’re essentially all three in one. Respecting the arts means respecting your fellow artists.

Any work made ineligible for the Nebula Awards by them disallowing slop and slop-assisted work was never eligible in the first place. "There are legitimate uses in translation, research" If you consider 30-70% incorrect results that poison neighborhoods with new cancers "legitimate"

I'm so disappointed to see people willing to throw translation under the bus. So deeply disappointed.

research and translation are NOT "legitimate" uses of AI and that should be well fucking obvious at this point ffs

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

coming to a @pretendingpod.bsky.social side arc near you

The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.

named my fists Waffle and House, bc they can whip up a mean breakfast or bowl of chili even while existentially exhausted, and will toss you on your ass if you act up in my kitchen

Being simultaneously touch-averse *and* touch-starved is a heck of a thing.

🗣️ turn it the fuck up

Here it is with the byline and alt text

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.

it turns out that Zuckerberg is one of the most prolific enablers of child abuse in the history of the world. i contend that nobody this derelict in their duty of care to minors should be allowed to have any excess of money or influence ever again, and that should be the least of the consequences

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

re: previous post

Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.

*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly* people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!! *hitting you on the forehead with the spoon* STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...

PLEASE tell every author you know about this!

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

all of this! goes along with the thing that annoys me about a lot of recent books (also much editorial direction atm and seeming demand from readers (tiktok))—everyone is Good and no one is horny. and any character not being Good is a moral failing on the part of the author

Everyone says that . But doesn’t really treat the victims of it with any real depth or experience and .. Wait that’s exactly like Reagan too carry on

Corollary: You cannot forgive someone who does not seek forgiveness. If you do then it isn’t forgiveness, it’s permission.

You cannot forgive wrongs that were not done unto you.

My heart is so heavy … I lost a friend and mentor yesterday and the disability community lost a leader. The incomparable Alice Wong passed away. She inspired me to find my voice. She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

What would be news is if the conversation actually changed. If there were a groundswell of support for survivors of CSA and SA. If men no longer felt comfortable casually sexualizing children and women. If abusers were held accountable. Fired. Stopped. If, for once, change seemed possible.

sure has been a time to be a CSA survivor on the internet, I tell you hwat